Bürgermeister
[ˈbʏʁɡɐˌmaɪ̯stɐ]
The verdict
“Bürgermeister” has 20 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,587
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oberhaupt einer Stadt, Gemeinde oder anderen Kommune
Corpus desk
Index DE-burgermeister · Bürgermeister · German
Bürgermeister · rank #1,587 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,587
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Blut
Nearest frequency peer: Blut (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Bürgermeister“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Bekannten
Bekannten
98,417 corpus weight
- bessere
bessere
98,416 corpus weight
- Blut
Blut
98,415 corpus weight
- Bürgermeist…
Bürgermeister
98,414 corpus weight
- Büro
Büro
98,413 corpus weight
- ehemaligen
ehemaligen
98,412 corpus weight
What this shows „Bürgermeister“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bürgermeister |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbʏʁɡɐˌmaɪ̯stɐ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #1,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Bürgermeister“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around Bürgermeister (IPA [ˈbʏʁɡɐˌmaɪ̯stɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,587 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oberhaupt einer Stadt, Gemeinde oder anderen Kommune".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for Bürgermeister, with forms such as "bbürgermeister", "brügermeister", and "bügrermeister". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bürgermeisters", "Bürgermeisterin", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Bürgermeister, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-M-E-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Oberhaupt einer Stadt, Gemeinde oder anderen Kommune
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bürgermeister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bürgermeister und Gemeinderat verabschieden den neuen Gemeindehaushalt.
Es sind nicht die klügsten Bauern, die sich zum Bürgermeister wählen lassen.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbürgermeister
- brügermeister
- bügrermeister
- büregrmeister
- bürgemreister
- bürgeremister
- bürgermeisetr
- bürgermeisster
- bürgermeisterr
- bürgermeistre
- bürgermeistter
- bürgermeitser
- bürgermesiter
- bürgermiester
- bürgermmeister
- bürgerrmeister
- bürggermeister
- bürgremeister
- bürrgermeister
- übrgermeister
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Bürgermeister - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Bürgermeister", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (20 here; floor ≥5).